Category: Fiction

Edith Konecky | A Place at the Table | Fiction … A sharp and tender portrait of a New York woman as she faces the end of love, the comoplexities of friend- ship, and her own mortality.

Jill Malone | Red Audrey and the Roping |

‘This is a literary gem . . . one of the best books I’ve read this year.’-Ellen Hart

Occasionally a debut novel comes along that rocks its re

Carson McCullers | Member of the Wedding (New Directions Paperbook) | Twelve-year-old Frankie cannot understand why everyone disapproves of her idea of going on her brother’s honeymoon.

Marnie Woodrow | Spelling Mississippi | From an acclaimed short-story writer, a blazingly intelligent and humorous debut novel that is set in New Orleans and tells the story of two strangers

Lisa Alther | Other Women | With two young sons, a failed marriage, a job as an emergency room nurse that leaves her feeling paralyzed and hopeless, and a relationship with a wom

Leslie Larson | Slipstream | In Slipstream, Leslie Larson traces the intertwining paths of five characters as each struggles to stay afloat in the face of major setbacks, minor fa

Helen Hodgman | Passing Remarks | When middle-aged, academic Rosemary meets twenty-seven-year-old Billie-a woman with a tough bike and even tougher attitude-she goes weak at the knees.

Jeanette Winterson | Art & Lies | A train hurtles through the future with three passengers on board: a disillusioned surgeon named Handel, whose humanity has been sacrificed to intelle

Sarah Schulman | Girls, Visions, and Everything | This novel takes readers on a ‘wry and playful’ (Out!) tour of lesbian sex, politics, and art in New York City. The city’s sizzling — especially at t

Hannah Bradby | Skinfull | Two stories featuring adolescent sexuality and a multi-racial feminism. In Skinfull, set in Glasgow, we meet Maya and Balvinder. In the second story U